It’s Canadian Agriculture Day today – a chance to celebrate the abundance of incredible food grown in Canada and the hard-working farmers and producers who cultivate it! We’ve been mindful of supporting our local, independent suppliers wherever possible under normal circumstances, but especially so this year. One way is ordering fresh produce straight from your local farms, like the fresh veg + fruit haul
EAT. PIZZA. LOVE. Since becoming parents, Valentine’s Day at home has been our norm, so this year won’t feel much different in lockdown times. We’ve been making so many lovey dovey themed recipes for the blog this month, we’ll probably take a bit of a break and do a combo meal of part homemade, part take out to show some local love. Kinda like this
Are you tired of all the heart-shaped food shares yet? We hope not because these Blushing Heart Sheet Pan-Roasted Potatoes were a fun spin on a classic family recipe and make a beautiful compliment to all your cold weather comfort food classics – Sunday roasts, chicken dishes, meatless proteins, seasoned fish fillets, or savoury + sauteed veggies – for a subtle nod to the Month
Happy Month of LOVE, all! We’re going on our 5th week of e-learning at home. The kids are managing as best they can, but some days we’ve just needed to be online school rule breakers and fun recipe makers instead. Last week we tried out these Chocolate-Dipped Heart Cookies – 3 ways [because we’re indecisive yet fun like that ;)]: 1) with crushed strawberry-yogurt candies;
If there was one dish that comes to mind that I made weekly when I was working 9-5, commuting, doing the after-work daycare pickup & dinner shuffle with little ones crawling up my leg as I smashed a dinner together this is the one – a One-Pan Chicken Parm-atore recipe. It’s not quite a parmigiana dish, nor the classic chicken cacciatore Italians make, but a
Love is the best ingredient… DadChef and I celebrated 15 years of marriage (26 years of couplehood) last week and had some fun in la Cucina making all the lovey dovey foods together. I usually wait until February – the “official” Month of Love – to post these sorts of recipes, but times just feel so heavy right now with all that’s going on in
One day at a time…the Mom-tra of all I keep reminding myself of after the first week of 2021 showed us we won’t be out of the woods for some time. We’re still trying to get steady over here, fams. DadChef returns to work this week & I’m trying to wrap my head around how I’ll manage e-learning for four kids, running our family business
Happy 2021, all! We’ve been creeping instead of leaping into the new year. Still a little unsteady but a lotta hopeful. We got notice before Winter Break that the kids will be on virtual school come this week, so we’re thinking of some simple recipes that may help with dinner indecisiveness for you guys. I’m still not a meal planner, but have some ideas
CANDY CANE CRINKLE ICE CREAM CAKE Our last food share to the blog before we take a break from la Cucina chronicles – something simple + sweet because don’t we all need a bit of that right now ❤ I made this nut-free Candy Cane Crinkle Ice Cream Cake with the kiddos this week & it was a big hit. So, if you didn’t order
Every year around this very time we do a big decluttering & purge. Out with the things that no longer spark joy before bringing any more “stuff” into the house. I used to do this in January, but something about wanting to welcome a New Year lighter now ignites my my urge to purge earlier. And don’t we all just need to feel a little
